<p>If you mean a 3-2 system for engineering, I have yet to meet someone who paid for 5 years of college to get a 4-year degree!</p>
<p>It works for many...there are several other LACs who offer this option for students. If they didn't have the students to fill the program it wouldn't be available.</p>
<p>It does seem to be a common option. And I can understand the attraction - if you want to go to a LAC but in the back of your mind is "but what if I decide I want to go into engineering...." But I'd still be surprised if enrollment was high in options like these. Would be nice to see some stats on it.</p>
<p>It would be good to see numbers... my D has a friend who is leaving small LAC essentially just before Sr year for 2 more at another school. Hard to do. I wonder if many really carry through?</p>
<p>Son is sold on it. He feels he has worked his tail off in highschool constantly juggling rigorous courses. An exam here, a paper due there, a grade going downhill in this course, readings in this subject.... That has been his high school, always whipped one way or the other. He does not feel he has ever been able to put time into anything to know if he enjoys it or not. By taking it one course at a time, he is hoping to find what he truly likes, instead of just trying to get the work done. He is very excited about this.</p>
<p>At Colorado College, it seemed that the premeds do very well. You can take what you enjoy pretty much for 3 years and take your med school courses all in one year and take the MCATs with everything fresh in mind, and your grades easier to manage. Many a premed tanks in the first two years trying to take the difficult sciences along with the maths and learning to write a college level paper, and just not getting the gpa needed for med school. Not the case there. They have phenomonal bio labs according to son, and one of very few cadaver labs on the undergrad level .</p>
<p>Interesting that you mention cadavers, cpt - I had to go to Montreal & took D to visit McGill while we were there. On the tour, we were told that Anatomy was one of their "top" majors, and that McGill was the only North American university where undergraduates could still work on cadavers. Interesting factoid, but something that is not easy to fact check.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure Luther College in Iowa also has a cadaver lab.</p>
<p>When I visited Colorado College in Dec of 2007, I was told that there are 4 cadaver labs where undergrads can study and work, and that one of them was there. Did not get where the the other 3 were. Son is not premed; it was just a mention on the tour.</p>
<p>If you go on the Col College website to the search section, and type in cadaver labs, there is information about this.</p>
<p>Either the McGill guide was misinformed or she was drawing a distinction between university and college. I suspect the former!</p>
<p>Tusculum College in Tennessee also uses the block system. It appears to be a much different school from Cornell and Colorado (religious, lower SAT scores, etc.)</p>
<p>The website for one of these schools, I can't remember which, has an article written by one of the school's science teachers discussing how he teaches organic chemistry under the block system.</p>
<p>This is my first time dealing with this system so I don't know how it is going to work. But I'm feeling very optimistic. His teachers have all told me how excited he is about the academics, courses, that he is going to get. He is right at the top in terms of enthusiasm about this whereas though most kids are looking forward to college, many are not that enthused about starting up school again. Many weary kids, I've been told. And anxiety as well. However, in his case, this is all very new and he feels is an opportunity to enjoy the subjects and learn them well. He just got a huge loose leaf notebook chock full of info from the college, and he is just so psyched!! And this is a kid who was dragging his feet regarding school. I think it is the boost in his arm that he needs. I will let everyone know how it actually goes, but his outlook is certainly one that gives me a lot of hope.</p>